Australia recently passed legislation explicitly allowing mitochondrial donation...
In this commentary, we consider the road to legalisation in Australia, the key aspects of this legislation, and some remaining unanswered questions...
The Australian Senate has passed a bill which will legalise the clinical use of mitochondrial donation by a vote of 37 votes for to 17 against...
A bill permitting mitochondrial donation has been passed by the Australian House of Representatives...
Australia is on the cusp of legalising mitochondrial donation...
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 1990 is the UK's legislation regulating the storage and use of human eggs, sperm and embryos...
In the 16 December issue of Nature, researchers reported that the addition of eight transcription factors to pluripotent stem cells converted them into a primary oocyte-like cell...
The Australian Parliament is set to have its first conscience vote on legislation allowing access to mitochondrial donation...
In this updated second edition of The Law of Assisted Reproduction, author Seamus Burns, Senior Lecturer in Law at Sheffield Hallam University, aimed to highlight the major features of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (HFE) Act 2008 just over a decade since its inception, and eight years since the first edition of his book was published...
Mitochondria are not as interchangeable as originally thought, with implications for the selection of donors for mitochondrial donation...
